ParaView 2.6 Released

The ParaView 2.6 release (version 2.6.1) is now available for download from the ParaView website (www.paraview.org/HTML/Download.html). It is also available through CVS; the tag is ParaView-2-6. There have been several changes since the 2.4 release of ParaView; they include the following:

Picking/Probing/Data Analysis filter improvements: • Fix lockup when some nodes lack data in parallel. • Use time values from the reader for the X axis. • Save changes in state, trace, and batch files. • Turn on the Exodus reader’s point data global id array by default. • Allow the Data Analysis filter to open data sets that lack point data. • Fix a bug that occurred in parallel when data arrays were ordered differently.

Surface Extraction improvements: • Let the volume rendering display ignore non-tetrahedral • cells when volume rendering tetrahedral data.• Create a vtkOriginalCellIds array to track which 3D cells produce each 2D surface cell.• If all the cells in an unstructured grid are already simplices, just copy the input to the output.

GLOBALIDS:• Add a new attribute type, GLOBALID, which will not be copied piecemeal or interpolated. Ids need to beprotected throughout the pipeline because they are identifiers, and not numbers per se, thus algebraicoperations on them are undefined.